The seminar includes lively presentations of various case studies allowing attendees to grasp the rights and wrongs of historic building repair and gain an understanding of how to ‘read’ a building when approaching repairs. Planning and listed building consent issues are explained and various grant funding schemes that can enable the conservation of our built heritage are considered.This CPD session ends with a site visit to a live building to illustrate the many issues covered within this course.This seminar is aimed at building contractors, planners, local authority staff, students and recently qualified architects, surveyors and engineers who as part of their workload are dealing with the historic built environment or those building professionals who have traditionally only dealt with new build projects but would like to gain an understanding of building conservation work.

Course Suitability

This seminar is aimed at building contractors, planners, local authority staff, students and recently qualified architects, surveyors and engineers who as part of their workload are dealing with the historic built environment or those building professionals who have traditionally only dealt with new build projects but would like to gain an understanding of building conservation work.